Transport strikes ‘inevitable if minister breaks promise’

Drivers at Bus Éireann went on strike for 21 days last year over planned cutsPA

Strikes and other industrial disputes will continue in the public transport sector unless Shane Ross delivers on his promise to establish a forum of stakeholders, an opposition TD has warned.

The transport minister pledged to set up a summit that would hear the views of the National Transport Authority, bus drivers, councils and rail operators. He announced the meeting in the midst of a dispute at Bus Éireann last year. Its drivers went on strike for 21 days in March last year over cuts that were due to take effect in April. At Irish Rail operators went on two day-long strikes in November.

Imelda Munster, the transport spokeswoman for Sinn Féin, said the minister had promised the forum would go ahead last year and then…

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